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Why is secularism failing? In conversation with Sumantra Bose

Why is secularism failing? In conversation with Sumantra Bose

Nick Spencer talks to Prof. Sumantra Bose. 30/11/2021

Secularism is supposed to epitomise reasonableness and fairness – the refusal to favour one (non/religious) group over another. Yet, it is coming under fierce pressure across the world. Why?

In this episode Nick Spencer talks to Prof. Sumantra Bose about his book Secular States, Religious Politics, and looks at the future of secularism in the 21st century.

 

 


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 30 November 2021

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